The Dinner
Herman Koch • 2009
Devastation Rating
literary fiction psychological family betrayal
Our Take
Two couples meet at an upscale restaurant to discuss what their sons have done. Koch peels back the civility course by course until the moral rot beneath is fully exposed. The narrator's reasonableness is the most frightening thing — he justifies everything, and you almost agree.
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